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Mary Hirschfeld

The bio below comes from a published article and may now be dated.

Mary Hirschfeld is assistant professor of economics and theology in the Humanities department of Villanova Univer­sity. She earned her Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 1989 and her Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame in 2013. She is a fellow of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, and she serves on the Board for the Program of Catholic Social Thought at the Lumen Christi Institute. Her email address is mary.hirschfeld@​villanova.edu.

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Although I was among the earliest supporters of Econ Journal Watch, I am pleased to say that the project has proved to be even better than I expected it to be. The range of topics has been wide and has included some of the most fundamental issues with which economists grapple. The critiques have flushed out some of the profession’s leading figures to defend their research against challenges that they probably would never have had to face absent EJW. Important topics that the major journals tend to omit entirely, such as the effect of recommended policies on liberty, have been raised. Most important, the entire project has operated at a very high level of quality and professionalism—there has been nothing amateurish or second-rate about it. I believe that EJW is performing an extremely valuable purpose for the economics profession, and I hope that it will continue to operate indefinitely. As it becomes even better known among economists, it can only get better.

— Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy, The Independent Institute